This Ice Cream Taco From Salt & Straw And Taco Bell Is Almost A Decade In The Making

The rumors were true: Salt & Straw and Taco Bell finally dropped The Tacolate—a collab almost a decade in the making that reimagines the nostalgic ice cream taco of our childhood.

Starting Friday, October 3, you can get it at all Salt & Straw shops nationwide (plus shipping on SaltandStraw.com). And yes, this is what you’d expect from two brands that live for kitchen hijinks in the best way.

This isn’t just some regular Choco Taco dupe. The Tacolate’s shell is a hand-pressed, extra crunchy waffle cone, loaded with cinnamon ancho chili ice cream, then dunked in single-origin chocolate, and dusted with toasted brown rice for extra crunch. Oh, and because this is Taco Bell we’re talking about, each one comes with two custom sauce packets: Mango Jalapeño and Wildberry Cinnamon. Ice cream taco with sauce packets? That’s not nostalgia, that’s a munchie fever dream.

Salt & Straw has been flirting with this concept since 2016, when they first dropped a soft serve taco at their Wiz Bang Bar spin-off. A limited run came back in 2022 and sold out in minutes, catching the attention of Taco Bell CEO Sean Tresvant. Fast-forward through years of hype, brainstorms, and probably a lot of melted test batches, and now The Tacolate is here for real.

It’s launching October 3 at Salt & Straw shops across Oregon, Washington, California, New York, Florida, Nevada, Arizona, and New England, plus nationwide shipping in 6-packs online. There’s even a commemorative keychain if you want to fully commit to the bit.